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A maze is a confusing network of passages and winding interconnecting paths.
A planet is a heavenly body which orbits a star.
A plant is a living organism of the vegetable kingdom.
The polka is a lively Bohemian folk dance.
A pub is a house licensed for the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
A red dwarf is a cool, faint star.
A reflex is an automatic response to a stimuli.
Rhythm is the beat behind a piece of music.
A riddle is a question designed to test ingenuity or give amusement.
The sun is the star at the centre of the solar system.
A symbol is something which represents something else.
An umbrella is a light, portable screen usually circular and supported on a central stick.
The universe is all of space and its contents.
Urine is a fluid produced by the kidneys.
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#	Encyclopaedic information:	People
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An aborigine is a member of an indigenous people.
An acrobat is someone who performs daring gymnastics.
An actor is a dramatic performer.  One who performs in plays.
An adept is someone who is proficient at some thing.
Albert Einstein was a German Swiss physicist.
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish inventor.  He invented the telephone whilst working at a school for teachers of the deaf in Boston.
Archimedes was a great ancient Greek mathematician.
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher.
A baker is a person who manufacturers bread.
A banshee is a fairy who forewarns of death by wailing.
A barber is someone who shaves and cuts the hair of a client for business.
A bard was a Celtic poet.
Beethoven was a German composer.
Benjamin Franklin was an American statesman and scientist.
Bruce Lee was a Chinese actor and expert in Kung Fu who popularised the martial arts in the west.
Bushrangers were Australian highwaymen, formerly escaped convicts.
Captain James Cook was an English sailor and explorer.
Charles Babbage was a British mathematician.  He designed an analytical engine which was the forerunner of the modern computer.
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist.  He published his theory of evolution in a book entitled The Origin of Species.
A cretin is someone who suffers from the disease cretinism.
The druids were ancient Celtic priests.  Their group still exists today in secret, despite the existence of charlatan groups claiming to be druids.
Euclid was a Greek mathematician.  His book the Elements of Geometry set down how geometry was to be taught for the next 2000 years.
Galileo was an Italian scientist.  He discovered the ring of Saturn, Jupiter's 4 major satellites and the sun's spots.
George Orwell was an English writer.  He wrote Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm.
Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford motor car company and the pioneer of the cheap motor car.
Homer was an ancient Greek poet.
James Watt was a Scottish inventor.  He invented the modern steam-engine.
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer.
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian artist and scientist.  He recorded scientific studies in unpublished note books.
Neil Armstrong was the first man to step onto the moon.
Orville Wright was an American pioneer of flying.  Together with his brother he made the first controlled flight of an aeroplane.
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher.
Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher.
A rogue is an idle vagrant.
Sir Isaac Newton was an English scientist.  He put forward the theory that the universe is regulated by simple mathematical laws.
Socrates was a Greek philosopher.
Thomas Alva Edison was an American scientist.  He invented the carbon filament electric lamp and the phonograph.
William Shakespeare was an English dramatist and poet.
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#	Encyclopaedic information:	Weapons
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Armour is body protection worn in battle.
An arrow is a missile projected by a bow.
A bayonet is a short sword attached to the muzzle of a firearm.
A blowpipe is a tubular weapon through which a missile is blown.
A bokken is a Japanese wooden imitation samurai sword used by kendoka when demonstrating or practising standard kendo movements.
A bomb is a hollow shell filled with an explosive.
A boomerang is a curved wooden weapon of Australian aborigines.
A bow is a weapon for propelling arrows.
A broadsword is a sword with a broad blade designed chiefly for cutting.
Karate is a form of Japanese unarmed combat.
A katana was a Japanese sword used by Samurai.
A mercenary is a soldier hired by the army of another country or by a private army.
A sword is an offensive weapon designed for cutting and thrusting.
A torpedo is a missile which swims through water to its target.
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#	TMBG
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Wake me when it's over, touch my face, tell me every word has been erased.
Draw the line dividing laugh and scream.
A poor man once told me that he can't afford to speak.
Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful.
I hope that I get old before I die.
Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank.
I wish that I could jump out of my skin.
Which one of us is the one that we can't trust?
If it wasn't for dissapointment, I wouldn't have any appointments.
What's the point in arguing when you're all alone?
I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed.
Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.
This good luck charm hanging off of my arm was left here by the police.
The microscope reveals the scope of my very best intentions.
As I think, I'm using up the time left to think.
Someday mother will die and I'll get the money.
I don't want to change your mind.  I don't want to think about your mind.
Don't interrupt me as I struggle to complete this thought... have some respect for someone more forgetful than yourself.
Precious and few are the moments that you and your own worst enemy share.
Every man is made of two opinions.  Every woman has a second half.
I had the strangest dream... I dreamed I killed you again.
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.